I found this article on Townhall talkiing about the possibility of Fred Thompson running for president, and sent it on to Greg, because he had just been telling me recently what a good candidate Thompson would be. I hadn’t heard of him before, but Greg’s opinion squares with this columnist’s:
It is a major development because […]

As I usually end up saying, I just love Ben Stein. Here’s something from his Web-site (link HERE):

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:
I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when […]

My priest, Fr. Elias, sent out this article in an e-mail two days ago, and it’s been on my mind since then. (Talking about it means that there are some grim details, so let the reader be aware.)
Iraqi kidnappers who abducted a Syrian Orthodox priest three days ago left his beheaded corpse in an outlying […]

Really, they’re just being difficult.

At one time I thought about having a separate category just for the culture sightings that make you think that surely the world’s about to end soon. I was going to name it “The moving walkway is ending” in honor of something you hear a lot in airports — so much, in fact, that it […]

We’ve got a spot of Indian summer going on now. The temperatures are back in the mid-90’s, and the air conditioning has been humming along all day. I’ve always been kindly disposed toward the idea of Indian summer, but I think that was just because it sounded nice. Or maybe I was just recalling that […]

Boy, it gets harder and harder all the time to be an Anglophile.
This bit of voluntary sharia law comes to us from Nottingham, England (link HERE):
A multi-faith cemetery will have all its graves aligned with Mecca, despite Christian burials traditionally facing east. …
In today’s secular society you could be forgiven for not knowing […]

CAIRO, Egypt - An al-Qaida-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were “doomed,” as protesters raged across the Muslim world to demand more of an apology from the pontiff for his remarks about Islam and violence. …
The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as […]

How long did Rosie O’Donnell wait to say something offensive to believing American Christians — about five seconds?

Since I would watch “The View” only about as willingly as I would watch any other women-prattling-endlessly show, which is to say ‘not at all’, I didn’t catch Rosie’s remarks during the September 11 show, which was supposed […]

For those of you who didn’t have the four-plus hours to kill to see “The Path to 9/11″, and who couldn’t make heads or tails out of the allegations of Clinton administration alumni who pitched such a fit over it, here’s a cartoon by Michael Ramirez that boils everything down pretty concisely. Link is HERE. […]